the passionate moviegoer

a fan's notes by joe baltake devoted to movies neglected and mostly misunderstood

Saturday, March 16, 2013

sensually sinister

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In their enthusiastic reviews of Park Chan-wook's "Stoker," more than one critic has alluded to the film's Hitchcockian...
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Monday, March 11, 2013

rapscallion

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  Sam Raimi's "Oz The Great and Powerful" is too odd and, by extension, too fascinating to be as hastily written off as it ...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

tarnished

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The curious turn taken this year by the usually stuffy, self-important Oscarcast probably warrants psychoanalysis more than critical ...
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

cinema obscura: Massy Tadjedin's "last night" (2010)

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Thanks to the language barrier and locales that are more exotic than Anywhere, U.S.A., foreign films get away with a lot. Especially Fre...
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Friday, December 28, 2012

in no particular order, and unannotated

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Tim Burton's "Frankenweenie " (Disney) Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" (Weinstein) Joe Wright's...
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